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EXTERMINATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exterminated mean? 

EXTERMINATED (adjective)
  The adjective EXTERMINATED has 1 sense:

1. destroyed completelyplay

  Familiarity information: EXTERMINATED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXTERMINATED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroyed completely

Synonyms:

annihilated; exterminated; wiped out

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)


 Context examples 


The question to be debated was, “whether the Yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth?”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The males were exterminated, Ape Town was destroyed, the females and young were driven away to live in bondage, and the long rivalry of untold centuries had reached its bloody end.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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